Using a VPN or Changing Your YouTube Location to Avoid YouTube Ads
The more people that do this, the more likely it gets blocked. VPN endpoints are very well known and it would be very easy for youtube to block this.
Google simply can’t afford the legal liability of advertising to IP addresses from some of those countries (such as Russia), even when it’s pretty sure that it’s just a VPN server.
that isn’t the point. They could just not allow people to access youtube from those IP addresses.
Or none of that could happen. We’ll cross that bridge if we ever get to it.